preference – under the pretext of showing interest for children – for looking forward to adulthood. This was characteristic for … politicians are ready to continue investments that «merely» favour children? Since 1980s a new sociology of childhood has been … critical to these forward-looking perspectives and insisted that children’s welfare is significant enough in itself as an …

primary, secondary and tertiary education programs for the children, the transfer expenditure would decrease and the tax bases …

The birth-interval approach to the study of fertility reflects two aspects of the process of reproduction: (1) the … quantum of fertility as indicated by the proportion of women who move to the next higher parity; and (2) the tempo of … fertility, as measured by the time it takes to make the transition for those women who continue reproduction. This paper focuses …

persistence of high fertility in sub-Saharan Africa. Although fertility behaviour depends on multiplicity of factors, childhood … mortality affect fertility are well understood, the empirical evidence has been inconsistent. Thus, the unsettled nature of the … link between childhood mortality and fertility was a major motivation for this study. Methodologically, the paper examines …

children of educated workers are more likely to become educated, this fertility differential increaases the proportion of … unskilled workers, reducing their wages, and thus their opportunity cost of having children, creating a vicious cycle. A model … fertility differential between the educated and uneducated is greater in less equal countries, consistent with the model …

Human fertility is likely to affect agricultural production through its effect on the supply of agricultural labor … variation in the number of children born to a mother and related it to agricultural labor supply and production outcomes in … Uganda—a country that combines a dominant agricultural sector with one of the highest fertility rates in the world. We found …